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conformity or otherwise of the doctrines taught or ritual practised in any chapel or meeting-house of any Non-conformist body, or the intentions of the founders by whom the building or its accessories or endowments were given, when
Tail
estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1] With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are … will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s.
Fairness
The authority is not misguided by extraneous or irrelevant considerations. Fairness is also a principle to ensure that statutory authority arrives at a just decision either in promoting the interest or affecting the rights of persons, M.S … or capriciously and must not come to a conclusion which is perverse or is such that no reasonable body of persons properly informed could arrive at, Pyrites, Phosphates & Chemicals Ltd. v. Bihar Electricity Board, AIR 1996
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Corporation
of 1860), s. 21, Cl. (12)] 'Corporation' referred to under s. 20 Expln of CPC mean not only statutory corporation but also a company registered under the Indian Companies Act, Hakam Singh v. Gamnar (India) Ltd., AIR … of Law, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 260. Corporation, may be defined as a body of persons or an office which is recognised by the law as having a personality which is recognised
Foreign company
a copy or translation of the instrument and regulations constituting the company, a list of directors with the statutory particulars and the names and addresses of one or more residents in Great Britain for service of notices … and 81, ibid., see the (English) Companies (Forms) Order, 1929, S.R. & O. 1929, No. 823. Means a body corporate incorporated outside India, and includes a firm or other association of individuals. [Foreign Exchange Management (Establishment in
Marriage
P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes … religious worship, in the presence of an 'authorized person' certified as such by the trustees or other governing body of the building. Notice must be given by the parties to the superintendent registrar of particulars according to
Divorce
(c) cruelty, (d) incurable unsoundness of mind, and, on the wife's petition, for unnatural offences, subject to the statutory provisions. Petitions may not be presented for three years after marriage. Judicial Separation is grantable on any ground … (a) legal dissolution in whole or in part of a marriage relation usually by a court or other body having competent authority; (b) an absolute dissolution of a valid marriage made by decree of court for lawful
Resolution
contract. As to the cases in which resolutions of the House of Commons varying or renewing taxation have statutory effect for a limited period, see Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913 (3 Geo. 5, c. 3). As … 'resolution' means ordinary resolution (s. 167). A formal expression of an opinion, intention, or decision by an official body or assembly, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1313. Resolution, is the expression of the opinion of the
University
of Liverpool Act, 1904; (English) University of Leeds Act, 1904; and (English) Sheffield University Act, 1914) have equal statutory privileges and exemptions; and Reading University (see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the … Ambedkar University Act, 1994 (58 of 1994), s. 2(u)] The term 'university' is usually understood to mean a body incorporated for the purpose of learning with various endowments and privileges, AIR 1993 Del 239 (242). University, institution
Certiorari
obtain the previous leave of the court to issue it, and enter into recognizances; and these and other statutory provisions are incorporated in the Crown Office Rules, 1906, Rules 12-39, superseding Rules 28-42 of the Rules of … KB 501. See Corner's Crown Practice; Shortt and Mellor's Crown Practice. A writ of certiorari lies wherever a body of persons having legal authority to determine questions affecting the rights of subjects and having the duty to
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